Dawn Landes Features Storyboard P In ‘Bluebird’ (Video Premiere)

It’s a good bet that rootsy singer-songwriter Dawn Landes’s career doesn’t often intersect with Jay Z’s, but they do have at least one thing in common: each has featured Brooklyn street dancer Storyboard P in a video project.

Storyboard (real name: Saalim Muslim) was the focus of Jay Z’s “Picasso Baby” last fall; now he shares billing with Landes in her new video for “Bluebird,” which premieres today on Speakeasy. The song is from Landes’ forthcoming album by the same name, her first full-length release in four years. The video alternates between shots of her singing the wispy tune in a delicate voice and Storyboard’s muscular twists and stretches in the woods—a riveting contrast.

How did singer cross paths with dancer?

“I first saw him dance at a party in New York City where we were both performing,” Landes said. “He walked in the door and just started moving to my song. It was mesmerizing, I’d never seen anyone move like that before. They call him the Basquiat of Street Dance but I think of him more along the lines of Charlie Chaplin or Pina Bausch. He’s a real story-teller.”

“Bluebird” the album is due Feb. 18 on Western Vinyl. What do you think of the video? Leave your thoughts in the comments.